Taoyuan Lotus Festival

There’s a lotus festival going on in Taoyuan right now where you can see these gigantic lotus leaves.

Not only are they huge, but they’re strong and some people feel a need to have their children sit on them and pose for pictures.

Even if the children might be a little hesitant about floating out to the middle of a lotus pond and sitting on a leaf like a frog. Even if the children cry… because they’ll get over it quickly and have fun and we’ll end up with a cute picture.

After all, a beautiful flower is much less intimidating than a stranger in a red suit with a white beard that’s going to sneak into your house at night, right? And countless children have had their pictures taken with *him* while crying…

They did have fun after the scary bit was over. And we got interviewed for tv. And everyone at the pond took pictures of them ’cause they are so gosh darn cute!

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You have so many festivals in Taiwan!!!! How I envy you! They have those lotuses in Thailand too, I think they are called Victoria lotus. Never seen them in Laos though. So beautiful! The pictures you took are amazing and your kids are just so cute!

When I had a water garden, I wanted a lotus. They were not easy to come by where I lived at the time, so I never got one. I envy you. I want to see them growing! In person, that is. Your pictures are wonderful, and the kiddoes are adorable!

OMG… am experiencing one of those too-cute-it’s-lethal moments when I saw your second picture (and your commentary made me laugh!). To be honest though, I never thought that the lotus pads would be so strong as to hold actual humans atop it, so I could appreciate why little Jayden feel the need to hang onto his big sister for dear life… I also wonder how Jaylene and Jayden managed to make their way onto the lilipads in the first place? But now that I have seen that it can be done, I too wanna take a picture on top of a lotus pad!! 😛 (Wish we have similar gigantic lilies or lotuses here in Dublin…)

Now that I look at the picture again, there seems to be a clear plastic giant petri-dish like thingy on the lotus pad that Jaylene sat on? So I guess the pond management people actually have these out for tourists to pose for pictures? How cool is that!